111 Quotes by Daymond John

The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I’m getting hungry thinking about that.

Make sure you’re doing something that you love, that you’re willing to do for the rest of your life. If you’re doing it for money, that’s the only thing you won’t make.

When you sell a product or service, you’re making a promise to your audience. If you don’t understand your audience, you’ll never be able to keep that promise and you’ll ultimately let them down.

The thing about branding is it isn’t etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn’t last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade.

You don’t have to work for a big corporation if you don’t want to.

Whether people know it or not, I’m a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.

If you can’t come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there’s that aspect of Wall Street.

Told myself it didn’t matter if my ride didn’t turn heads – it only mattered that it turned things around for me.